3702.71
Physician loan repayment program definitions.

(A)
"Full-time practice" means working a minimum of forty
hours per week for a minimum of forty-five weeks each service
year.

(B)
"Part-time practice" means working a minimum of twenty
and a maximum of thirty-nine hours per week for a minimum of forty-five weeks
per service year.

(C)
"Primary care physician" means an individual who is authorized under Chapter
4731. of the Revised Code to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic
medicine and surgery and is board certified or board eligible in a primary care
specialty.

(D)
"Primary care
service" means professional comprehensive personal health services, which may
include health education and disease prevention, treatment of uncomplicated
health problems, diagnosis of chronic health problems, overall management of
health care services for an individual or a family, and the services of a
psychiatrist. "Primary care service" also includes providing the initial
contact for health care services , making referrals for secondary and tertiary care and
for continuity of health care services, and teaching
activities to the extent specified in a contract entered into pursuant to
section 3702.74 of the Revised Code.

(F)
"Teaching activities" means providing clinical
education to students and residents regarding the primary care physician's
normal course of practice and expertise at the service site specified in the
contract described in section 3702.74 of the Revised Code.